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[Mary Barnes <1521418@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  Refactoring: Move out the blocktypes that live under artefacts

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mahara blocktypes that display a particular type of artefact,
  typically live "underneath" that artefact. For instance the "image"
  blocktype, for displaying images, lives under
  htdocs/artefact/file/blocktype/image

  This causes us a lot of coding headaches, because whenever we're
  locating a plugin we have to take this special case into account. And,
  it doesn't give us much in the way of benefit. It can act as a kind of
  crude dependency/package-management, and it makes a certain conceptual
  organizational sense, but that's about it.

  So, I think it would help us straighten out our code base if we
  refactored the code to get rid of "live-in" blocktypes. My proposal
  is:

  1. Move all the live-in blocktypes to the htdocs/blocktype directory
  2. Remove the code that handles their special location
  3. Add a sanity check that tries to detect if a live-in blocktype is present, when installing a new artefact (in order to tell people that their plugins need to be upgraded)
  4. (Optionally) Add a dependency management system to the standard plugin/version.php file: Bug 1299908

  Adding item #4 would help to address the one bit of functionality we
  lose. But it's not strictly required; you could just depend site
  admins to manually install the necessary plugins. And the individual
  plugin sanity check can be used as a makeshift dependency checker.

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